World War 2

  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethopia after a loss in 1836 many years before and takes control
  • Flying Tigers

    Flying Tigers

    Hired by China in order to protect them and attack Japan.
  • Chester W. Nimitz

    Chester W. Nimitz

    Commanded all land and sea forces in the Pacific.
  • Navajo Code Talkers

    Navajo Code Talkers

    Indigenous people used during WW2 as code talkers because they could speak in a language that Japanese could not understand.
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    Thousands of U.S. troops and Filipino prisoners that were captured were forced to take a walk in which they were starved and beat along the way.
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066

    President Roosevelt deemed a evacuation and relocation of all people considered a threat to national security from the West coast.
  • Bracero Program

    Bracero Program

    The Bracero Program allowed million of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short term contracts.
  • Tuskegee Airmen

    Tuskegee Airmen

    The first African American pilots.
  • George S. Patton

    George S. Patton

    Patton was a general in WW2 who helped lead allied forces to a victory at Sicily.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    The supreme commander of allied forces.
  • German annexation of Austria and Sudetenland invasion of Czechoslovakia

    German annexation of Austria and Sudetenland invasion of Czechoslovakia

    Germany wanted to expand its territory and gain key military areas.
  • Omar Bradley

    Omar Bradley

    Bradley commanded the largest American military force ever under command of one man. He led in American troops and allies on D day.
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    Korematsu v. U.S.

    The wartime caused the Supreme court to rule that the internment of Americans of Japanese decent.
  • Douglas MacCarther

    Douglas MacCarther

    Commander of the Southwest Pacific.
  • Audie Murphy

    Audie Murphy

    Killed 30 German soldiers and repelled their attacks.
  • Vernon Baker

    Vernon Baker

    Awarded the metal of honor after WW2 because of his significant impact in Viareggio, Italy.
  • Manhattan Project

    Manhattan Project

    The first atomic bomb was detonated.
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials

    Uncovered the leadership of Germany and the Nazi dictatorship.